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kennedy journalism award for the price of african oil, a series on conflicts and nigeria. ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, please join me in welcoming bob and steve to our event tonight. [applause] >> let's find out what this man is thinking. the want to come talk? sure. i am happy to do that. it is great to be here. congratulations on the book. i found compelling. and i want to begin because we are talking about a geographic space, and it is hard for us to keep that in our heads. give us some mental map, if you will. when you talk about the cauldron, the south china sea, will you define the edges of that culver for us? >> think of it as the middle europa of the 21st century. just like central and eastern europe where the center of geopolitical conflict in the 20th-century can't think of the south china sea as that for the 21st injury. it is surrounded by the countries of southeast asia, the philippines, vietnam, the strait of:00 in the southwest, taiwan is in the north. the court in the ball, so the speak. it is about the size of the greater caribbean. in fact i
kennedy journalism award for the price of african oil, a series on conflicts and nigeria. ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, please join me in welcoming bob and steve to our event tonight. [applause] >> let's find out what this man is thinking. the want to come talk? sure. i am happy to do that. it is great to be here. congratulations on the book. i found compelling. and i want to begin because we are talking about a geographic space, and it is hard for us to keep that in our...
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she served as the ambus basder to nigeria and served during the clinton whitehouse. we have a distinguished panel. i will turn to the our guest. >> thank you for the chance to testify on behalf of catholic services. i am scott campbell the region director covering the seven african countries. we are present in about 100 countries around the world and providing assistance and development programming. we have been in c.a.r. and our work is funded by the use government and sierra's private fund. i was in cer for three weeks in march and before that in january. i met my colleague rose during the second visit. i would like to share a few ideas about what has transpired in the country and how we are prioritizeing the work. crs is present from the whole breath of the country from the southeast and in the lar affected areas. and we have a very important u.s. aid funded program there working communities affected by the lord's resistance army. we are present in the capital with our partners in the south provinces and in the northwest as well. during my most recent trip i was i
she served as the ambus basder to nigeria and served during the clinton whitehouse. we have a distinguished panel. i will turn to the our guest. >> thank you for the chance to testify on behalf of catholic services. i am scott campbell the region director covering the seven african countries. we are present in about 100 countries around the world and providing assistance and development programming. we have been in c.a.r. and our work is funded by the use government and sierra's private...
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we thank the delegation of nigeria for everything done last month. we thank the undersecretary general for political affairs for his briefing. jordan would like to share its deep concern regarding the most recent development in the east of ukraine, in addition to spillover of violence in other regions of the country, including the city of odessa. we would call upon all parties to demonstrate a strength, bring about a return to calm, deescalation and to fully cooperation with the monitors. we reiterate our appeal for the freeing of all hostages. held by rebels in. including osce monitors. what we have today in the east of ukraine is not civil war but, rather, mutiny. the actions of the rebels are in violation of the law. and this includes the continuing occupation of seized public and government buildings, the use of force, intimidation of sillans, and -- civilians and threats to their life and security. as mr. feldman said, the continuation of these actions running counter to this letter and spirit of the geneva agreement, is running counter to the l
we thank the delegation of nigeria for everything done last month. we thank the undersecretary general for political affairs for his briefing. jordan would like to share its deep concern regarding the most recent development in the east of ukraine, in addition to spillover of violence in other regions of the country, including the city of odessa. we would call upon all parties to demonstrate a strength, bring about a return to calm, deescalation and to fully cooperation with the monitors. we...
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and in fact, i am headed to nigeria right now and so i don't know but my flight leaves at 2:30 p.m. so if that is okay, thank you so much. >> thank you so much again. i will talk to the issue of the peacekeepers. there have been several incidents where peacekeepers have been involved in violent acts against civilians and we talked about this earlier today were 30 civilians were killed. some soldiers were even special forces inside the country, which is just horrible and needs so much more international scrutiny. and i would also just take this opportunity to day that i am publishing a report about the violence in the country or we can learn a lot more about ideas or to thank you for this opportunity. >> we deeply appreciate that c-span has given the american people the opportunity to hear about this tragedy from experts who are living it. >> you will find that you can get that at our budget page. >> thank you. >> on the question of justice, i would have three points. mercy corps is an agency. i don't have an opinion on whether they have an opinion. but there are three points to thin
and in fact, i am headed to nigeria right now and so i don't know but my flight leaves at 2:30 p.m. so if that is okay, thank you so much. >> thank you so much again. i will talk to the issue of the peacekeepers. there have been several incidents where peacekeepers have been involved in violent acts against civilians and we talked about this earlier today were 30 civilians were killed. some soldiers were even special forces inside the country, which is just horrible and needs so much more...
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ambassador to nigeria and the republic of congo and was the u.s. permanent representative to the ecowas. she served twice as african director of the national security council at the white house. so we have a very distinguished panel of knowledgeable experts and i would like to yield to mr. campbell to begin testimony. >> thank you chairman smith and for this opportunity to testify on the half of catholic relief services. we are grateful to your leadership and the interest to the central african republic and it's people to find the regional director for catholic relief services covering central african region and seven countries do to congo's one and burundi chad cameron and central african republic. crs is present in about 100 countries around the world and providing humanitarian assistance and development programming. we have been and clr since 1999 doing programming and worked very closely with our church partners in the country. i worked -- our work is mostly funded by the u.s. government sarah's private funds and other sister agencies. i was re
ambassador to nigeria and the republic of congo and was the u.s. permanent representative to the ecowas. she served twice as african director of the national security council at the white house. so we have a very distinguished panel of knowledgeable experts and i would like to yield to mr. campbell to begin testimony. >> thank you chairman smith and for this opportunity to testify on the half of catholic relief services. we are grateful to your leadership and the interest to the central...
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that the tribal, ethnic and religious conflicts have been remarkably on the uptick in south sudan, nigeria, christians, muslims, just everywhere in weak state governments, and they all have modern weapons or machetes. would you cardiackize yourself as -- characterize yourself as being more optimistic or less about this future since there seems to be a reluctant on the great powers to get involved in these things? and as an aside, i would say what she was talking about, i think the way the russians look at the world and putin is completely different than ours, and they really have a different mindset based on their geography. >> two interesting questions rolled into one, thank you. [laughter] your first question, your first observation, you're absolutely correct that there's a lot that that's still tribal in the modern world. it's not just that in afghanistan and sudan there's a lot that's tribal. in the united states, there's a lot that's tribal. any of you who know a rural area of the united states. so my wife and i and our kids, we spend parts of our summers in montana. and when neighbor
that the tribal, ethnic and religious conflicts have been remarkably on the uptick in south sudan, nigeria, christians, muslims, just everywhere in weak state governments, and they all have modern weapons or machetes. would you cardiackize yourself as -- characterize yourself as being more optimistic or less about this future since there seems to be a reluctant on the great powers to get involved in these things? and as an aside, i would say what she was talking about, i think the way the...